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TELL ME A SECRET by Holly Cupala

August 7th, 2009 by Holly Cupala · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: HarperTeen
  • Release Date: June 22, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061766664
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
It’s tough, living in the shadow of a dead girl… In the five years since her bad-girl sister Xanda’s death, Miranda Mathison has wondered about the secret her sister took to the grave, and what really happened the night she died. Now, just as Miranda is on the cusp of her dreams—a best friend to unlock her sister’s world, a ticket to art school, and a boyfriend to fly her away from it all—Miranda has a secret all her own. Then two lines on a pregnancy test confirm her worst… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Connect · Contemporary · Cupala, Holly · Death · Debut · Drama · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Grief · HarperTeen · Literature · Local · Love · National · Peer Pressure · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Secrecy · Stand-alone · Suicide · Washington · Young Adult

ONE WISH by Leigh Brescia

November 2nd, 2008 by Leigh Brescia · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Westside Books
  • Release Date: April 23, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-934813-05-8
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Overweight Wrenn Scott desperately wants to be popular and snag a hot boyfriend. Living with her single mom and younger sister, Karly, she lands a lead role in the high school musical, her voice for once overshadowing her weight. Pushing to get thinner by opening night, Wrenn's waistline shrinks as she learns all the wrong ways to lose weight from a new "it-girl" friend in the show. Meanwhile, her mom is falling for Phil, "a balding Channel 8 News-nerd"; her sister is wrapped up in her… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Body Image · Book Trailer · Brescia, Leigh · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Family · Friendship · Local · National · North Carolina · Rated PG-13 · Stand-alone · WestSide Books · Young Adult

MY BIG NOSE AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS by Sydney Salter

November 2nd, 2008 by Sydney Salter · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Release Date: April 1, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0152066437
It's the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future--and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form of her Super Schnozz, the one thing standing between Jory and happiness. And now, with the Summer of Passion stretched before her like an open road, she's determined for Super Schnozz to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Author speaking availability · Body Image · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Humor · Local · National · Nevada · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Salter, Sydney · Self-esteem/Self-image · Stand-alone · Utah · Young Adult